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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS. JULY 12, 1826. LTHE MORNING HERALD.] It would, appear that so far from there being any abate ment of distress in the manufacturing districts, it is rather on the increase; and the applications to the Committee for relief are daily becoming more numerous. We have seri ous ebjectioris to the mode in which relief is administered in some instaiues, as well as to the mode of payment adopted by some of the master manufacturers. In Scot land, for instance, a number of hand-loom weavers and 'others of a different description are still in employment, but the wages are so small that: these unfortunate indivi duals are in as bad a situation as those in .some districts of England who have no employment at all. The wages they receive are quite inadequate for their support. What good purpose can this system serve ? If there be no demand for manufactured goods at such a price as will repay the, workmanship, why produce them at all ? The only effect it can have will be to continue the glut in the market, and prolong an evil which otherwise could be only tempos. rary. , We have great objection also to the system of granting partial relief; either from subscriptions or pariah funds, to those manufacturers who are not adequately paid for their labour. This is, actually a bounty paid to the masters; for when the prices rise, they only will en joy' the benefit. But there is stills a stronger. objection. When the, great muss of the population of any district acs apt of relief, without making any return to the communi ty, they begin to lose all sense of shame and independ ence ; no one eau reproach another with being a pauper, because they are all on an equal footing ; and the conse quence must be to raise and continue the poor-rates in the manufacturing districts to that frightful extent which has produced such degradation and poverty in some of the agricultural counties. If this system should ever become permanent among the former class of inhabitants, we may rest assured that its effects will be dangerous, and even ruinous, in proportion as the morality of the manu facturing classes is inferior to that of the peasantry. It would be much better for the weavers, and the country at large, if a stop were put to the man ufac t ure of those g oods for ich there is no actual demand, and if the money raised by subscription or otherwise, were paid to them for making roads, cutting canals, breaking up commons, or in other useful works, which might in time benefit the whole nation. The subscriptiims received by the London Com mittee now amount to 125,073/.; but this sum has been found so inadequate to the demands for relief, and the distress is become so general, that it is said to be in con templation to. issue the Royal Letter to the Metropolitan Bishops, for the purpose of extending the subscriptions to every diocese in England, as was done for the relief of the suffering Irish in 1822. Should this be the case,we trust that the Committee will see the propriety of resisting every measure that tends to increase the already enormous quantity of our manufactured goods, and rather endeavour to devise some new sources of employment which may withdraw a portion of the surplus hands from those tie partments of labour which are already overstocked.' The exigency of the times was urged, at first, as a reason for granting parish relief to those agricultural labourers who receive& only half wages from the farmers. The flame reasons may be urged at present for the relief of the ma nufacturers ; but the fatal consequences resulting from it in the former instance, will be a sufficient beacon, we trust, to deter us from adopting it in the latter. There hardly ever was a period when so many robberies were -oe - sn:itted in shops and houses as at this time. The Lonk7 , ate ..i;resented to overfioW with critni- L*; t:, re ; are sr' ;; '; 41141 squares where at teat e , , cry tenth boost. P 1 9 11 4 0 (.4 in some way or other, within the last t rr. ilTeat deal of this, we are aware, iu dt. -mid so far na vigilance cf police ‘votdd it ar,4;tlrr,t a, slut the greater part of it arises from o,:t Acy system, by - which the lives and.propectier of tine !ieople are consigned to the guardianship of a set of igi ,, ,trant, bigotted, self sufficient, irrekponsi.ble boobies, v‘i . ;to make no other use a their power but to abuse it. N't ;v' ir.ot a thopn sand other ohjectious to these Dog carry Legislators, this would be sufficient—vir. their total inaptitude to pro- Ade a complete protection, either by day or night, to the inhabitants, but whom they take care to to:: for that which they do not recei , ;'o. We are not very fond of the term Police, or of the Government haying in its bands more influence than can be avoided; but we do think that the preservation of the public peace and the guardianship of the lives and properties of thel King's stibjects, ought to tie placed in responsible hands, and not left to tb; controul of people, who have proved themselves to be in all respects wholly unfit for it. ....Aire feel quite convinced too, that much of the military expense end parade with which... the. country is encumbered, the jealousy.and .beart-burnings which the introduction o f the military into civil con cell:0 give rise to, might be dispensed with, if the day and night patrol of the m etropolis ' and etlier large towns,towns,itpoli a revectable end efficient Tooting. We do not wish to press hard upon the poor devils call ed watehmen, and would rather etpend, our wrath upon their emplOyers; for one..balf of these wretched spectres are only plaeed in the streets awsearecrows, for the pur pose of easing the poor-rates, or like dirty hackney-coachee anti their lentern-ribbed nags, are sent to night-work merely because they are.unprodueible by day. The system o lparleh-coustables, too (including, of course, Ida rover tome of the night), is equally objectionable. - It is, as now constituted, an onerous office, which no respectable man can or will undertake, and which therefore devolves for the most part upon low ignorant people, who be away their year of service greatly ni the 'annoyance !•heir neighbours, and with little or no advantage to any one.--e To be sure, the Alpe of constable May be called in one sense " the cheap defence" of the nation, as Mr. Constable belongs, like the Aldermen of London, to the much-ho noured fraternity of " the unpaid," though, like sonic higher branches of that order, we suspect that he now fuel them makes There us good a thing of Iris office as if he were paid fo r it. There is another ralltiO we for the crowde wed state ofe our!. prisons, to which we canno t but advert, mean thre prehensible practice of comtnitting persons to prison for trifling offences, thus introducing and inuring them to erirne, besides inffictitig beiwier blorehand, thk:l any .Couri.would lot found to pass upon them when found guilty, Of this the present Hertford At sihee fur nish most striking evidenee, and which, we fear, exists but tin m too frequently, both in etoliotia anti other places We do not mean to say that a child 'who pilfers a penny I tart or a halfpenny, orange, or that the - Unfortunate being who, compelled by hunger, filches a loaf from a baker's basket, or a piece of hakon from the tempting shop-board of a cheeeemouger, are biareaees; but to think of arraign ing, s uch persons at this bar of Court of Justice (and 'that While greater offences go andiseorered), betrays an anxiety " de minintis," which we have been taught to Aup ose that the laws were indifferent about.. The ' great ob ject of all Police should d'be prevention. Muh, we lieve, has of late yearn been done toWards that object, but it can never be effectually aecomplished, till the rooster key of the whole of,its machinto is placed in one direct. ing hand, by which' it. may he brought to bear upon one andobject, instead of boing, as it now is, half efficient and half nugatory, and under the guidance of persons Iv have neither time nor capacity for the duties they prolc,., to undertake: —/bid• FTUE MORN W ING CITRONLJ E It is somewhat amusing. to bear '277 Couriep—no*Aat the base cry o f No Popery ha 3 excited an indignant (feting in the Catholics of Ireland, to withhold • their vot ous froM Candidates who declare their religion blitaphem and idolati:ot, and de , .en't them unfit for the exams() of consti tutional rights—exclaiming, against the disgustine sytem of hypocrisy and fanaticism which has been openly prac tired. " We are rejoiced," he says, "to find that the foul knavery of the thing is likely to be exposed. Lord G. Beresford, in an Ad dress to the. Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Waterford, has nobly pledged himself to this task. "fhe contest,' says be, 'in which I have been engaged, for the honour of repre senting you in Parliament, is suspended, but, believe me, it is -hut terminated. 1 will resume it where the genuine principles of the British Constitution will decide the -controversy. "I propose," con tinues his Lordship, " to petition the House of Commons agaiust the return. which has been made of Members to serve iu Parlia ment for this county ;. and I will expose to the Legislature, and to the EMpire at large, the means by which that return has been effected. I will prove that the Roman Catholic Clergy have exerted the vast spiritual powers of their Church, to accomplish a temporal oldect—that they hare A PCLIP.O THE VERRORS O 1 AW meta woaLD to the political concerns of this—and have ern plOyed all their influence over a deluded multitude, for the esta blishment of despotism which threatens to involve our Laws and Liberties in one common ruin." We should think the Catholic who voted for a Candi date who deemed his religion a ground of disqualification for the enjoyment of civil rights, had some reason for decoding the terrors (j . (Mother world. If he is sincere in his belief that the Catholic religion is the best, he cannot, without being an arrant knave-the most contemptible wretch that crawls on the face of the earth, as despicable as the Catholic Baronets of the North of England—vote for that man as a proper Representative, who would pu nish him for that belief. To demand this of a Catholic freeholder is as great an insult as if a Catholic freeholder were to go to Lord George Beresford and coolly ask him to perjure himself by assisting him to make out a false alibi. We are by no means of the number of those who deem it. necessary to encourage the use of the shillela in Ireland, but really the recourse to it in such a case would be pardonable..—The open and barefaced manner in which the claith is put forward to the votes of the freeholders a.:4 a matter of right, like the landlord's rent, is certainly rather calculated to startle us, particularly when ,we hear an appeal made in the same breath to the genuine princi ple: qf the British Cionstitution. Do the genuine principles of the Biitish Constitution require that " the wishes and interests of landlords . '' should alone be consulted by the Freeholders on their Estutes ? Better at once give the power directly to the Landlords, than tantalize the poor wretches with a semblance of free will. We are glad to see that the Catholic Association is about to adopt effec tive measures for the protection of tenants. against the vengeance of their landlords. It would not be amiss to publish a list of all landlords who give way to such vindic tive feelings, that . the Catholics every where may be aware of their, enemies, and know how to deal with them. In conjunctures like the present, nothing is gained by tame submissiveness. The Orangemen are not to be soothed into kindness towards them. .• [THE BRITISH PRESS.] Ware:led. again and again to return to the subject o the distress in the country, in the hope that, .by our per tinacity in exhibiting our views, we may be able to induce some persons to think on the subject. The principle which we stated yesterday we would repeat us-day—that all less necessary commodities on which labour is employed derive their value from, and have that value increased by, the abundance of necessaries. This proposition is so clearly demonstrable, that, its truth is almost obvious from its first enunciation; and it seems extraordinary that the conse quences resulting from it have been so little attended to. It is certain that a man possessed of jewels and ornaments to any amount, if he could not procure any other covering .would give all those jewels and ornaments for a piece of cotton ; and it is certain that a piece of cotton itself would be sacrificed if food could not be otherwise pro cured. In proportion as necessaries abound above the demand for them, in the same pro Portion precisely will a new demand be created for less necessary objects; and as prices increase in proportion to the demand, the value of superfluities must increase precisely in troportion to the abundance of l has necessaries. 'his bet!ttirecittetstly observed i ia partatadar nstances; but, from the intervention of money in all eases of sales, reasoners have generally stopped short at the medium of barter, and instead of considering all commodities as. mutually exchangeable„ and calculating their respective values from their relative abundance and ,iitility,:phey 'have compared all commodities with currency, and have given an undue importance, in consequence, to an increase in the circulating medium. Now, it is certain that the over-prodUction of any one commodity, even of corn itself, will increase the price of all other commodi ties, while it lessens its ow n value, and will, therefore, cause misery among the producers_ of that commodity; but from the principle of political economy, by which it is asserted that population increases in the same ratio as the means of subsistence, it is clear that the over-produc tion of necessaries is less detrimental, in the long run, than that of any other commodities. In our political system, instead of the excess falling on our agriculture, it has taken place in our manufactures, and the over-production of manufactured articles has raised the value of agricultu ral produce, as compared with it, to an extreme degree; whereas, if the agricultural production had kept pace with the manufacturing, the relative proportions between the two would have been preserved-=we should have had an excess of both to export, and even if we had not found a market abroad, no misery would have ensued, because all commodities would have existed at home in equal abun dance. The great object of the Legislature now ought therefore to be, to increase the proportion of necessaries by all the means in their poWer, whether by permitting the impoCtation of corn in the mean time, or by contriv ing such enactments as may tend to throw a great propor tion of the energies of the country into the agricultural department, and by directing these energies to the pro duction of necessaries in the first place. The social sys tem, in this respect, requires a balance as equally poised as that of the planetary system; and a single excess of one article, beyond the due proportion which ought to be assigned to it on account of its utility, never fails to cause calamities among those who produce it. It in not so much the ithielnte quantity of commodities manufactured that must be Considered, as the relative quantity of one species of commodity in proportion to another. Hence thu,great aim of the Statesman ought to be, to assign its -,roper degree of encouragement to every article of pro alij to take care that no part may exceed its natural [ 'l' II c REP RESY..NTAT I VE.I There h; " no point of view in which the situation of Greece can be contemplated, without exciting an extraor divary degree of interest in her favour. At different pe riods of the contest she bad been divided against herself; but she has at length learnt wisdom by experience, and is now united against the common enemy. The nature of the warfare icy -which she is engaged is such as might have sunk her deeper and deeper in anarchy, and excluded her from the. sympathy and social relations of Europe; but ber conduct under it has produced the reverse effect, and the suspicious and prejudices which were raised against her have yielded to admiration. A. system of order has grown out of eiremnstances which would have thrown most states into irretrievable confusion; and few establish ed governments could have resisted the shock, wh ich, in Greece, has been the means . o f reaction, of strengthen.. ing the egecntive authority, and of deVelopiag the cha racter of those whom she has placed at the _head of her affairs. In fact, Greece is evidently rising supe rior try_ all the difficulties -that ;noticed her—she haS via betat, . barbarized by her barbarous oppressors-.-she tfaa nor, been conquered by overw h e l m ing force—she has Pa 1:0191 intimidated or reduced to submission by, the abandonment of those to whom she looked for succour s e l „, it ? ! r iti r i e s cie t b e e n c t it ti f , t: y trayed by any of her children, what she h4i, neither. ,b4T, forced, en n t o e r rt e a u i j o t. serVittale-- , she has'not listened either to threats or to ne• 4 4, i I Isotoreaberlilboettir intor— gociations, when a return to the Turkish yoke has been proiscitii3 even under the guarantee of a perfect. amnesty, Although she has experienced unczarnplet i financial ern. barrassments, and, for want of a national treasury, has been unable to follow up any regular plan of military ope rations, to establish a commissariat, to organize an artillery, to keep a standing army on foot, to indemnify those who have been losers in the public service, to repair dilapi dated fortresses, or to put any one branch of the civil or military service into an effective condition; yet, in despite of all these defects, she has preserved her independent tone, and has baffled every attempt of the adversary to accom plish her subjection. Nay, more, she has increased in con fidenee; she has enlarged her credit among nations ; and the very persons who predicted her downfal, when she had more resources than she has at present, are now awed by her unconquerable spirit, and begin to prognosticate her final success. It is impossible to refuse this gallant nation the meed of our applause, or to despair of her ulti mate triumph. She began the conflict without any " point d'appui," or seat of Government, without any leader of experience, or Statesman capable of holding the reins of Power. She was from the first, and is still, destitute of the principal sinews of war. She has neither cavalry nor engineers ; she has neither hospitals nor maga zines ; she has neither an Exchequer nor a military chest ; and yet she will finally emancipate herself from the Otto man thraldom, and conduce to the expulsion of the Turks from Europe. Courage, enterprise, and constancy such as hers, never failed of succeim. Practice will - make the Greeks disciplined soldiers, the sympathy of Europe will supply them with pecuniary resources, and their own per severance will achieve the rest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE.—A. female, very shabbily dressed, but evidently accustomed to better society than that in which she ap peared in the Justice-room, for she respectfully stood amongst the numerous petiaioners to the Lord Mayor, presented herself to his Lordship, after he had conclude! the business of the day, and mentioned that she stood in need of his advice, as she WAS, not withstanding her undoubted claim to something like an independ ence, actually in want of the common necessaries of life. Her husband, with whom she candidly acknowledged she lived before be married her, had been only a member of the House of Lords, but one of the most distinguished men of his day for talents and public, spirit. She was the widow of the celebrated Lord Erskine. _ _ _ The Loan MAYOR titillated that the unfortukate lady would walk into another room, when a conversation took place between them upon the subject of her distress; awl his Lordship, after having given her immediate pecuniary relief, of which it was evi dent she stood in need, for she appeared to be actually faint with hunger, assured her that he would without delay exert himself to procure an inquiry into the circumstances of which she complained, but complained without attaching the slightest blame to any indi vidual. As far sa we were able to collect; from what was spoken in a low timid tone and voice, the following is the substance of the statement of the widow of the eloquent sad publie-spiiitell Irskine Lord Erskine had, soon after he lost his .first wife, become in. imate with the petitioner, who consented to reside with him, am became the mother of three children. His Lordship, who had commenced his acquaintance under a promise of marriage, per- formed tlutt promise some years after Wards in Scotland, where, by the laws of that country, his children became legitimate. They lived very happily together, but his Lordship's death completely destroyed her , chance of independence, although she had 'been assured some time afterwards that his Majesty would settle a pen- sion upon her, in consequence of the sudden and lamentable re. duetion in her circumstances. The trustees appointed- upon the occasion were, she understood, Lords Roselyn and Duncannon, but she hal never received any benefit, pecuniary or otherwise, on account of the pension ; and she believed the reason of the rejec.. tion was, that she refused to part with her youngest child. The other two children were provided for, and separated from her, and she therefore resolved to undergo any privation rather than be se. prated from the third. The Loan Miama asked her whether the rest of his Lordship's family were aware of her distress ? She replied that they were ; but that, with every inclination to assist her, they really appeared to her not to have the means. How then do you contrive to support yourself now ?" asked his lordship. The unfortunate latly . quid, she endes.voumi to keep life within her by needle-work, which wee 4iipplieri.to her very scantily. tics great til4eitt being to obtain a decent livelihood for the child that retnaintsl with ber, she thought nothing of any difficulties she might encounter herself, or of any privations to which she might be ex posed in performing her duty. The widow, with tears in her eyes, expressed her gratitude to the Lord Mayor, upon receivi.lg his solemn assurance that he would cause inquiry to be made of the solicitor and gentlemen who were best acquainted with the affairs of her late husband. The conduct of the poor woman was unobtrusive in the extreme. 110W-STREET.---Yeaterday, Lieutenant Edward Kenny, of his Majesty's 89th Regiment of Foot, was brought before Sir R. Bi RN cr, timed on suspicion of having been guilty of the wilful murder of Mr. Charlton, surgeon of the Hun. East India COM^ puny's ship Bussorah, Captain Stewart, on the high seas, during the passage of that ship from Bengal to England. The accused was brought in the custody of Langdale, a constable of Deal, and Bishop, one of the principal officers of this establishment. He appeared to he about 26 years of age. He bow e d re s p ec tf u lly t o the Magistrate on being placed before the table. He was not put tp the bar. The accused was a passenger on hoard the Buisorah, and he and the deceased, it appeared, had been on the most friendly terms previously to the unfortunate event described below. Thomas Langdale, the constable of Deal, was first examined, and deposed, that on Sunday last he was ordered by the Mayor of that place to go on board a ship in the Downs, where he took the accused into custody on a charge of murder, alleged to have been committed on the high seas. He brought him to London, and gave him into the custody of Bishop. The following depositions, taken before a Court of Luptiry held on hoard the ship, by Captain Stewart and other officers, and some gentlemen who were paeeengere, immediately after the death of Mr. Charlton, were then handed in and read:— Mr. Charles Oakes, second officer, being sworn, deposed as follows had charge of the watch from eight o'clock until 12 on the night of the 28d of April last; at about ten minutes be fore 12 on that night Lieut. Kenny came up the poop ladder, and Mr. Charlton followed him ; I was then walking on the front of the t they passed me without speaking, and I con sidered ere coming on the poop, as they had been in r the r ey p le ; the habit of doing during the passage. I took no further notice, nor did I perceive any thing in their hands as they passed - me. They sat down on the hen-tmps for a few seconds. Ist that time was going round to look at the compass, and I saw a pistol flash in Lieutenant Kenny's hind. I immediately went to the poop, and called Captain Stewart ; and on my returning to the poop I found that they had gone below. I did not see Mr. Charlton's pistol flash. It was perfectly moonlight at the time. When Captain Stewart came out, he ordered me below to see what they (Lieutenant Kenny and Mr. Charlton) were about. On my reaching the steerage, I found they had left their cabin, and:on my return to the deck I heard the report of a pistol. I was then at the hatchway. On returning to the poop I found some of the watch hail run aft, and were in the act of lifting Mr. Charlton from the deck, and placing hint on the hen-toops. Mr. Charlton was then apparently quite dead. The only words I heard Mr. Kenny say were, " Oh Go(11 I have killed the best friend I ever had; I shot him." Dennis William Dwyer, a seaman of the larboard watch, Heroin..--About 12 o'clock on the night its question, I was near t 4 l l. e r. p c oo h p a i ri w tot e , n c irf ca T ;r i y el i i ig t , . Kenny come upon deck, followed by a pistol in his hand. Mr. Kenny said, "I hope you are not going to make a fool of me." Mr, Charlton replied, ee I a m a gentleman, and do not wish to make a fool of any person." They then went to the after part of : th e poop. I went up directly afterwards, and acquainted Mr. Oakes, the officer of the watch, of what I had heard and seen. Mr, Oakes went down im me diately, and went to the Captain's cabin. I saw Lieut. Kenny with a handkerchief , which he waved, and then I saw both Mr, Ktmny's and Mr. Charlton's pistol flash twice. Mr. Charlton dm» came tome, and asked me for a pin er a needle, or A piece of wood. I told him I had neither, but I would . go anti get them, I then went, and eat down by the poop ladder. I saw th em co me down front the poop and go b e l ow . Immediately aft erwar d s they came up again, and I heard Lieut. Kenny sity, gg Br Goof,me. Charlton, 1 will hav e your lif e , or y ou shall h ave m i ne .. , I then beard the report of pig* and SAW Mr. Charlton fall. I thiok it was about five or six minute- after they came up from below that. 1 heard the pistols go of Mr. Kenny appeared to he in liquor. I then ran up the poop, and got the pistols, and took them to the middy. I saw no powder or ghat on the poop. Before the pistols went off 1 heard Mr. Charl ton say, We had better wait until the morning, at eight o'clock." I did not hear Lieut. Kenny'A reply. Jatnes llarplrt, seaman, sworn , .I hid the helm from 10 tolo o'clock on the night of the tad of April. At about 10 minutes before 12 o'clock I saw Mr. Chiriqui and Lieut. Kenny come on the poop. They then went aft, and sat by the rudder-heed. I then saw Mr. Charlton and Lieut. Kenny take each a pistol from his jacket-sleeve. The next thing I saw I took to be a powder flask. Lieut. Kenny had this. I saw Lieut. Kenny give the doctor some powder frem the flask, with which I saw him prime the pistol. Lieut. Kenny then said, " Are you ready now?' and Mr. Charlton said, " Yes." Mr. Kenny said, " Step forward, and I will stop here ;" and directly the doctor came forward and stood against the mizen-mast. Lieutenant Kenny then took his cap and handkerchief and threw them up between them, and both their pistols flashed, but did not go off. The doctor then went aft to Mr. Kenny, and got some more powder from him, and primed his pistol again, and Mr. Kenny primed his also. Mr. Kenny then said, " Go ;" and the latter returned to the mizen mast. Mr. Kenny then waved his cap and handkerchief again, and the pistols flashed a second time. Mr. Charlton then threw hie pistol downwards with his arm, and said, "D--n the pis tol," and then went up to Mr. Kenny, and laid the pistol alongside of him, and came forward to one of the seamen named Dwyer, and asked, him fin. a pin or a needle, or a piece of wood. The man said he bad none. Mr. Charlton then came to me and asked sue if I had one. I told him no, and he then told Dwyer to go down and get him a piece of stick. Dwyer went down, and a little time afterwards Mr. Charlton said to Mr. Kenny, " He- is not coming with the piece of wood ; we bad better go dOwn again." They then both went below from the poop. When they first brought up the pistols, I saw Mr. Oakes, the officer of the watch, go below to call the Captain. About five minutes afterwards Lieut. Kenny and Mr. Charlton went below, I saw them come up again; and as Lieutenant Kenny was passing Mr'. Charlton, I heard Lieut. Kenny say to him, " You are a blackguard, you are afraid.' The doctor's reply was, " No, no, lam not afraid in the least." Lieut. Kenny then went aft, and the doctor went to the same place by the mizen-mast, where he stood before. I then saw Lieut. Kenny hold up his hand, and they both fired together. Lieut. Kenny then put his hand to his head and said, "I am shot, lam shot !" and Mr. Charlton put his hand to his heart, and fell upon the hen-coop.— He never spoke a word. Edward Sellers, a seaman, sworn.—On the night in question I heard the report of pistols. 1 ran aft, and was informed that it was on the poop. I went to the poop, and saw Mr. Charlton, the • surgeon, lying on the hen-coop, apparently dead. 1 saw Lieute nant Kenny, and seized him by the arm, and I said, " I will se , cure him." Several of my shipmates did the same, and Lieutenant Kenny said, " You are all man-of-war's men; do with me as you I like—throw me overboard if you like." I then waisted in carry ing the body of Mr. Charlton to the quarter-deck.. This was the whole of the evidence. Sir R. litaxig, addressing Lieut. Kenny, said—" You are aware of the nature of the charge against you, Mr. Kenny, and it is of course my duty to hear any thing you may have to offer in your defence; but perhaps it would be better for you, in your situation, to abstain from saying any thing in the present stage of the inquiry." Lieut. Kenny, in a tremulous tone, said, he felt very desirous of being attended by counsel, and had sent to several gentlemen, but they were unfortunately out of town. He had sent to Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Alley, and to Mr. Harmer, hut they were all out ()flown. Sir R. Bittsar said, he should most certainly have every facil ity to prepare for his defence. The accused was then remanded for further 'examination, and directions were given to the proper officers to take care that he bad every "ndulgence shown him which was consistent with his safe enstoily. Mr. Kenny seemed in ill-health, and much depressed in spirits. When Mr. Charlton's name was mentioned, his lip quivered, and we perceived his eyes moisten. He, in a faint tone, thanked Sir R. Birnie for his kind consideration. CURIOUS CASE.. At di* Assize Court of Sienne, a deaf and dumb youth, named Jean Nadeau, was, tried for theft. He had been employed in a straw hat manufactory, and was in the habit of taking several valuable articles of this kind, con cealing them in the cellar till towards evening, when be would convey them out of the house, and dispose of them abdut the town. These circumstances were clearly proved against him, and the only question which remained to be decided was, whether he was conscious that in doing so he acted wrong, as being an uninstructed sound-inuet he could hardly be supposed to understand all the distinctions of moral rectitude. In order to ascertain this important Ncti M. Pautmier, the Institutor of the Soun d s-mues, who interpreted between the prisoner and the Court, attempted to take Nadettu's handkerchief from him; the latter instantly resisted, and on M. Paulmier taking the hand kerchief of another person present, and handing it to the prisoner, he made signs that he had no right to retain it, and-restored it to the right owner. This foolery being ended, a shorter and plainer course suggested itself, that of putting the question to Nadeau, when he instantly admit ted that he lied no right to the straw hats he had sold. It was contended for the prosecution, that the circumstance alone of his seeking concealment, Was sufficient proof of conscious guilt. • M. Lebrun, however, the Advocate of Nadeau, made a very ingenious and eloquent defence. Would it be just, he 'asked, that society should visit with a severe punish ment an infraction of its laws, by a being who never had been instructed in their provisions, and to whom, de prived as he was of the organs by which truth and justice could be learned, the world had ever been an inexplicable mystery ? Even admitting him to have sinned against, the ' religion of Nature and Morality, he denied that the civil law could subject him to any amend. It would be more proper course if the Court, instead of condemning him to an useless and cruel imprisonment, should sentence the accused'to he educated. This appeal had its effect, and the prisoner was ac quitted. • ft is computed that there are 15,000 deaf and (hnt patients in France, of whom 500 only have been educated, MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, MONDAY, JULY 17. (At the Court of Commissioners.) J. Eaeterhy, Feucharch-street, 12. Hunts and Robinson, Waterloo-place, P A II- wa p, Evuns, Cheapeide, 2. S. P. Chapman, King-street, °wapiti', 11. COUNTRY DIARY, MONDAY, JULY I'7. J. Haneybouni, Portsee, Southampton —Three Time, Port sea, 3. B. Woodcock, Hyde, Chester,—Mr. Lontlale'm office, blanches ter, twelve. Osborn, Howes, Smith, an d O s b orn, Nortliamptou —Guildhall, Northampton, 10. J. Gray, jun., Birminghani,--Royal Hotel, Birmingham , 10. Christopherson, Liverpool—Golden-lion, Liverpool , 12. PETITIONS OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. 1N THE COUNTRY.wor WILTS. —At Salisbury next Mob.. R. Smith, S out h w i c k , W i lts, la b ourer . T..Aust, Wormwood, Wilts, fanner: H. Winkworth, Devites-green, Wilts, baker. W. Butler, New Sarum, Wilts, brush-maker. J. Wickham, Devizes, Wilts, stage-coachman. RUSSIAN TR A Dlile.-•••Tlic principle articles im ported in 1825 were rice, sugar, cotton, yarn, dyeing materials, cotton manufactures, wine, &c. The whole value of the imports was 182,706,835 rubles. Th e pr t h e ex ports amounted to the su m a iiicipatexporu w ere' tallow, flax, hemp, and corn ; exceeding the imports by . th e t 2 h 3 e 4, w 7 - 1 3 10 1 1 , e 4 : 8 f rubles, sum o f ,52,024,6 13 rubles.—St. Petersburgh Jour nal, June 20; ii y1)1101'1E10'81 A.--Pogs that. are usually kept con fined, should always have a bowl of fresh water con tainilig a . lum p o f it st i i i l a p v h e ur. the W ontaneously caution is effecthen this o f p pre-r pre- venting the disease from occur ring. But when the dog is bitten by another in the rabid state, it will neither - ler prevent the formation of the disease, nor accomplish however, confidently AS rt Se , th at no dog kept un der the above circumstances, has ever been attack. e d by hydrophobia, unless the . disease was com municated by inoculation. , .—Lancet, vol. vi., p. 191 THE MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday). COTTON.—There was scarcely arty thing done in Cotton hot week, the sales being only 40 Egyptians, lid. duty paid, and 110 Surats 4-id. a bid. in botid. There were more inquiries after Cotton last night and this morning; in addition to the sales we have enumerated, 400 bags iikvat4 hare been taken at 40. a sd. SUGAR.-The good and fine Muecovades were in some request last week, and all descriptions above 575. were rather higher ;- the great proportion of the new supply is of the inferior brown, and there is little demand, except for exportatiee;ktli!i sales that we have seen were at a reduction of 6d. a Is. it cwt. particu larly Sugars from 50s. a. 535. The deliveries lain week were ex tensive, and the stock, compared with ,last year, ;,..i 2,700 oils less, yet the extensive arrivals appear to deter tak ,trade from , ~ coming forward ; this morning there are extensive ingairies Iliad:, and it is evident the wholesale grocers are out of stock,* yet so ge neral is the anticipation of lower prices among the trade, that the)' only inquire as to prices, offer a shade lower, and do not purchss.• to any extent. We estimate the sales by private centract to-d 4 at 600 casks ; the prices cannot he stated at any alteration sine last week. The public sales, 120 hhds. Barbadoea, went off et ' full market prices : 1,473 bags Mauritius sold at previous price' , ; yellow, 545. 6d. a 58.. 6d. After the day of lowering the bounty I on Refined Sugars, last week, there was a complete stagnation in t i the demand for export goods; low lumps, which had been pre viously 790. fell to 765. The grocers continued to buy a few fine goods for immediate consumption, but only on a confined scale; there was little alteration in the currency. Molasses 25.. Tn - clay the wholesale grocers are purchasing fine goods suitable for the home trade at a reduction of 2.. per cwt. The exporters de' not buy any goods fur shipping ; they state the prices must fall in proportion to the withdrawing of the bounty before any traces& tions of extent can be expected. The nearest price of Molasses to-day is 255. 6d. In Foreign Sugars there was no alteration last week. Carves.--There was remarkable changes in the Coffee marker last week ; up till Thursday inclusive Coffee was very heavy, and the great proportion of the quantity brought forward at public sale was withdrawn. On the Friday there was a brisk deman d, and the whole of the Coffee sold ; the British Plantation ls• 8 2s. higher, and damaged St. Domingo realized 465. Since then the market has again become heavy, and good ordinary Se- De r mingo is reported tie be sold at 435. 6d. for money. There were two public sales of Coffee this forenoon, 74 casks Dutch and 45 0 bags St. Domingo ; the former sold high, being much wanted for home consumption, middling to good middling 781 a 90. f the St. Domingo was fine ordinary, and was all taken in ; 45s fid was offered for some lots and refused ; the ordinary quality of Si' Domingo offers privately at 43s 6cl. in crake, and 44e in bags; we quote the prices 43s a 46e, which is Is. a 2. lower than co Tuesday last; 31 bags good Mocha sold Ifs a 839. Hoes.-The accounts from the Hop districts continue eel favourable; the plant spreade, looks healthy, and there is an ar pearance of burr; the duty is now 200,000/. The price of Hope in London are entirely nominal. MAR"ANY, &c.-By public sale on Friday, 271 logs 11 . pieces Mahogany, ex Sir B. Barclay a St. Domingo, 15id age *1; 2 logs Satin Wood 21d. FRUIT.-There is more enquiry for Valentia, Raisins, and the advance quoted obtained. In other descriptions there is no alte - ration. HIM?, nose, AND TALLOW.-There is no material alters tion in Tallow ; the nearest price to clay is 325. 3d. ; Hemp is 'lnv!: tied. The holders of Flax are firm, and are asking prices nin'" higher than the present currency, on account of the detraction of the crop in Ireland. The letters from St. PetereburFh yeatee' dap state the Exchange 9i. For delivery: Tallow shipment on or before 31st August, 331. ; ditto delivery last 9 months, $ 4 "l ditto free on board, 27.. ; Hemp, shipment ou or before the SOn'' Sept. 851. a 34/. 10s. Lanico.-Th. opening of the sale at the India limy,* thii morning attracted great attenticn • the serious fall that has taken place, the wretched state of trade in England, and the report considerable orders for Indigo from the Continent, aU ten ded increase the interest. The sale consists of 5,057 chests Ben' 553 Madras, 11l Manilla, 3 Java, and 1,176 ()tide. 'ir, prices of Bengal and Madras have gone much the sans as in Ape", last, but the Oude is either all bought in or pasted. The highsl price yet paid is 9s. 2d. per lb. The sale goes off with goe spirit. price.; Sric zon-The ltaisit;, 141. There was some appearance of a revival in the dow,. for Pepper, hut the heavy arrivals have again checked the clonal , Si...public sale this forenoon, 1,288 bags Pepper, billed rdo, n ,, aid.; 109 boats. Cassia I.ignea, Si. a tit. ls. ; 62 casks N l ', luny* Is. 66. a 3s. ; ^;6 casks Mace, best 45., seconds $l4; 11 cases and bags Cloves, le. ad. a 26.-800 haler Sit c h,,ti Cilia!' week k d s e s l U l id at 1 01 1 11: 1 moo,s-01 first 6.. 37sd..1cdb.iescil)ra. te bo hm ug . l_ s a ir o e o s b e a co gs tid E s, as s t s. i 7 l l. ii :e ( r i y i l ar ltu r e , 13s. 6d. a 145., the whole went off heavily and lower. ois t p h iri e effect ff b ec e t ing on broughtthe Barley n RUM, BRANDY, AND WOLLANDS.--Where we* rather ents l business doing in Rum last week ; the buyers looking with ell' tentontotli o the dry weathe r ,reFigl home consumption. Jamaica, 32 over, sold at 31. 2d., 27 fct . t l9 over, 2s. 9d. a 2s. I Id. ; Leeward., 10 over, 2 1 . 2d., nn uitr proof and proof, Is. 9d. a Is. 10d. ; one or two parcels 01 reported to be taken off privately, but as the particulars dill ont transpire they were supposed to be sold at 'prices rath er lower lrlieyore crops, into 5 t the p robability 1 tendon Il e i than the market rates. At a late hour to-day the inquiries efter Rum were renewed, the demand appeared chiefly for Leesvartls-' Brandy was also higher, on account of the favourable repot from the Treasury. Geneva without alteratios. The uppliti' tion to th e Lords of the Tretorury, for leave to add anti reinforc e old Brandies, to 'nuke them suitable for home consumption, ke,' been granted ; the answer was received at a late hour to-day ; " will have a favourable e ff ect on t rade, p articularl y to old Bra ndin' that are so often unsaleable on account of want of strength, 14 being suitable for home use and general purposes, and in cone . quence generally superseded by the new Brandies.-Mt It if 1 :' be observed, the privilege is onl y for home consum p tion ; but °11: ' should think it will be extended to export. The Spiri t to , imported to reinforce the Brandy to original strength is to be dt t i free. The trade now ordering Brandy may have it told, son the strength described. TOBACCO.-There is no business doing in Tobacco. , d NAVAL STORIS.- Turpentine, Tar, and all description! - Naval Stores, are heavy and rather lower. .e Paovisiosis stationary in price, and the de ma nd moiler: A' o f B aco n 61. a 625, fully maintains the price, owing to the 01 0 the reason. Butters, in consequence of the drought, have an,' full 1 6 s. per cwt. and the home-make falling Dotel' oif, th e rivals go off freely. PI Oit.s.-In Fish Oils the transactions are on a limited auil there will probably be little b us i nes s effected till the _ L ret hl le the northern fi sheries are ascertained, which will Prom:" it known About the end of this mo n th ; th e n umber of Ihe „. 1 ) ..e lemon was 120 ; this year 100. Th e h o ld ers of Seal Oil 0 " no inclination to sell at present. „, te Te:A.-Nothing new in the Tea mar ket; t h e quantity - quan iir sold at the September sale ' will be declared by the ComP lue !narrow, and will have some influence on prices. ' .. The Monarch - of a country near France has I : 0 1 purchased in Greece, several wor k s o f ar t. ", e 411- s ni* the sum of 140,000 florins to be paid a t Napoli di ) Ro d " though the value of the antiques which h e has po o p is only 30,000 florins. (The King of Bavaria is ' edly meant, but we su s p ect t h e trut h o f t hi s anee"" te. Paris Paper. h inst., in 13e MIRTH . the On the 9t ruatd atreet the lady of muel Birch of a ann. ----- MARRIED. _______ ~ Ce, On the 6th inst., at St. James's Church, Mr. ic* e r aii Or Howett, of Great Marlborough.street, to Maria, olde s j,,, --'1 of Mr. Daniel Deabois, of Gray's Inn-paa - tage_l34:-"'—ir', DIED. ar e ' r On the 9th inst., at Barnhy.M o oe, the flight 110° Lady Saltoun. 1 er di d On the Bth last, at Lambeth, i n - the 110th year of 'l-pecr M rs . Aiwa, widow of the late Rev. 'Richard Mint, D.P . ' of MI Saints, Southamp ton . 1 I 'o On the 10th inst., aged 21, James 0. 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